opinionWASHINGTON, AFP -The tuberculosis epidemic is larger than previously thought, infecting 10.4 million people last year, while research into vaccines and cures is “severely underfunded,” the World Health Organization warned on Thursday. Across the planet, 1.8 million people died of TB last year, 300,000 more than a year earlier, according to the WHO's Global TB Report 2016. Still, TB remained one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide last year. And while the overall rate of TB worldwide is falling, the pace is not fast enough, the WHO report warned. “Worldwide, the rate of decline in TB incidence remained at only 1.5 percent from 2014 to 2015,” it said.

Source: Sunday Times October 13, 2016 13:41 UTC